Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...working, each on his own, the same territory. The music will sound familiar to anyone who has a long memory and an affection for tradition. It has shades of folk, honky-tonk, urban blues and revisionist country, but all of it can be called highly personal rock 'n' roll. These tunes have passion, intimacy and a shared but singular voice: the voice of the new troubadours...
Diana's mother is known as a bolter: she ran off with a lover, leaving her four young children. A similar flight is often predicted for Diana in the next decade. It won't happen. She might not be able to give her feelings the mystical drum roll that Charles can manage, but Diana believes in the Crown fully as much as he does, and works for it tirelessly. Early this month, the Economist printed a thoughtful story about the British constitution. Its proposals did not include abolishing the monarchy. Should it go? According to the Economist, "Common sense...
...willing to print the pamphlet he called Common Sense. It was too fiery, he was told, too seditious, and at this point a more cautious man might have learned to seal his lips. But finally a fellow radical, notorious, among other things, for living openly "in sin," agreed to roll the presses. Common Sense was born, with its great news that Americans had it in their power to overthrow the "crowned ruffians," the "royal brute," and "begin the world over again...
...that beloved "regional" writer had also made movies championed by critics and the public. He could be a French Frank Capra, if that populist filmmaker had also been his country's most popular playwright. Pagnol introduced French theatergoers to the accent of his own rural south, where Rs roll off the tongue like a river over its bed, and carted his movie camera out of the studio and into the side streets and luscious hills of Provence. The father of the French talkie, he was also the godfather of European neorealism...
...siren," says a publicist, "louder than a rock concert." A good car alarm is a sharp blade of sound: it pierces sleep, it goes into the skull like an oyster knife. In a neighborhood of apartment buildings, one such beast rouses sleepers by the hundreds, even thousands. They wake, roll over, moan, jam pillows on their ears and try to suppress the adrenaline...